Pascal Borry | Gert Matthijs The human recipe

understanding your genes in today's society

A smart and witty guide to all you want to know about human genetics. Human genetics is not the playground of science alone. Genetics concerns all of us, for we all have DNA, genes, genomes, and chromosomes. Our genes determine partly our appearance and our behaviour, our talents and our health risks. The authors of The Human Recipe use humour to explain what we understand about human genetics. With anecdotes and topical examples, they demonstrate how genetics affects our everyday lives. What if...

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Engels | 232 pagina's (PDF, 3,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Isotopes in vitreous materials

For all archaeological artefactual evidence, the study of the provenance, production technology and trade of raw materials must be based on archaeometry. Whereas the study of the provenance and trade of stone and ceramics is already well advanced, this is not necessarily the case for ancient glass. The nature of the raw materials used and the geographical location of their transformation into artefacts often remain unclear. Currently, these questions are addressed by the use of radiogenic isotope...

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Engels | 166 pagina's (PDF, 11 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Sofie Sun Drugs for the mind

censorship in China

In the eyes of the Chinese authorities books are too often Drugs for the Mind. Sofie Sun (1986) chose this remarkable description as the title of her investigation into censorship and literature in the People's Republic of China. She interviewed representatives of three groups of authors who each have their own view about censorship: writers with no official status living and working in the People’s Republic of China, writers in exile, and those who are members of the Chinese Writers Association....

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Engels | 104 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2015

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